Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Brian K. White been jivin' 'bout like:
>> > Why did you take this private?  People seemd to be enjoying the thread
>> > even though it was OT.
>
>I'm enjoying it, although politics is one of those dicey things to talk
>about publicly.  :-/
>
>Someone raised the issue of accents.  I have to comment.  Both sides of my
>family came over--all four grandparents.  Two from Hungary, two from
>Czechoslovakia.  All pre-WWII.  My parents were first-generation
>America-born in my families.  

I raised the issue of accents/dialects of English as there are vast
differences between various parts of the U.K., former British colonies, and
the United States.  There was an article in the Wall Street Journal several
years ago in which they said that the most proper ``Queen's English'' today
is spoken in India as England itself has fallen away from what would have
been considered proper English in the 19th and first half of the 20th
centuries.

Bill
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